I just bought a new ipad2. I played a couple of kids videos on YouTube yesterday ok, but today no YouTube videos will run through the pre installed app on the home screen today. I can navigate around ok but it just stalls when trying to play, and ends up saying can't play movie.
Any help appreciated.

The easiest first way to try to solve ‘unexplained’ or ‘unusual’ problems with the iPad are:-

Force the offending app to close. If you have iOS 4.2 or 4.3 double-press the ‘Home’ button to bring up the multi-task bar at the bottom of the screen. Press *and hold* any icon until they start to ‘jiggle’. Then tap the top left-hand corner of the app that you want to close. It will ‘disappear’ from the list. Don’t panic - you’ve not deleted it, just closed it. Now tap the Home screen and the multi-task bar will disappear. Re-open the iPad’s app and see if the problem has resolved itself. If not, it’s on to possible solution number two!!
Restart the iPad. Press *and hold* the Power button. After a couple of seconds a slider control will appear asking you to confirm that you really want to switch the iPad off (this is all you’ll be doing). Slide the control to accept. A rotating white ‘bezel’ will appear in the iPad screen as the iPad powers down (it takes a few seconds, just like it would if you were shutting down your PC). When the screen of the iPad has gone completely blank, press *and hold* the Power button for a couple of seconds until the white Apple logo appears and the iPad starts to power up. This takes several seconds, so be patient. During the power up the automatic screen orientation function is disabled, so don’t panic. A few seconds before the power up is complete, the iPad plays a little ‘jingle’ and then you’re back to the Home screen. Restart the iPad’s app and see if the problem persists. Apple (and Forum members) recommend that you power down your iPad at least once a week, just as you might regularly completely switch off your PC. The normal procedure of just briefly pressing the Power button of the iPad merely puts it to ‘sleep’. Most Forum members have found that one of the two methods I’ve mentioned here cure a whole bunch of unexplained problems and are an easy first step to resolving most anything that happens on the iPad.

When you say 'closing the app', did you close it in the multi-task bar, by pressing and holding any icon in the bar until they all start to jiggle then touching the upper left hand corner of the relevant app to completely close it?

When you say 'closing the app', did you close it in the multi-task bar, by pressing and holding any icon in the bar until they all start to jiggle then touching the upper left hand corner of the relevant app to completely close it?

Definitely closed all apps in the multitasking bar at the bottom of screen after double pushing the home button. I actually closed all the apps as well, not just you tube. Interesting, I can play videos in vimeo ok???
To answer the other person, I am using wifi model 16GB.

The prpblem can be on Google side also... Strangely, I've seen a lot of comments saying that suddenly Youtube was not working on iPads. Yesterday, I could not reach one of the Google groups I usually go to while my groups were working perfectly...

I just bought a new ipad2. I played a couple of kids videos on YouTube yesterday ok, but today no YouTube videos will run through the pre installed app on the home screen today. I can navigate around ok but it just stalls when trying to play, and ends up saying can't play movie.
Any help appreciated.

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Hi Waynenz,
I am having the exact same problem and it started happening last week. It seems to be all mobile devices. My wife has an Android and it doesn't work on that either. However, it works fine on my windows 7 laptop via wifi at home. If I use the wifi at work, it seems to work fine on my iPhone. So it doesn't work over wifi, only on mobile devices(iphone, ipad, android) in a specific area i.e. Ellerslie. You're not in ellersie, auckland by any chance... are you? I called up Apple Support and after talking for about an hour, they think something may have changed at the exchange. I tried contacting vodafone and they said nothing has changed. Not sure what exactly is going on.

Thanks for all the help!
I got hold of apple support today & in the end they got me to restore factory settings and start again. This seems to have solved the problem...for now at least, though I wonder when it might strike again.

Thanks for all the help!
I got hold of apple support today & in the end they got me to restore factory settings and start again. This seems to have solved the problem...for now at least, though I wonder when it might strike again.

Cheers all

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@Waynenz, Funny thing is that I called Vodafone (ISP) yesterday and they said that they hadn't changed anything and I went back home yesterday and youtube was working. I didn't have to do anything !!! I don't think I'll ever figure out what went wrong.

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